It can no longer measure what it was built to catch, at the exact moment the company says it sees early signs of the acceleration it was looking for.
“Anthropic's internal safety benchmark has saturated and can no longer measure capability gains, while the company raises its misalignment risk rating and documents agents killing rival agents.”
Anthropic (official Risk Report, August 2026)
Recorded 18 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
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“AI is dramatically accelerating AI research at Anthropic right now, roughly doubling the pace of capabilities progress.”
TRUE, BUTLab Not FieldAjeya Cotra on Planned Obsolescence, reading METR's assessment and Anthropic's S-1 statement that it may imminently meet its own threshold
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